Elizabeth Lesser Quotes

I hope this is the lesson we women really commit to memory - we learned that it doesn't work to try be someone other than who you really are.

Elizabeth Lesser

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• What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Me

• The biggest danger for any organism is to not identify that it's being threatened. I want to hope that people realize that the source of danger and risk in the Middle East is not the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but the deep radical Islamic vision of forming a global caliphate.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • Hope
  • Risk

• I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • World
  • Hope

• One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Talent
  • Learned
  • Manager

• You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Great
  • Live
  • Art

• On the landscape crew, I learned a lot from the other workers. We treated everybody equally, and we worked hard.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Learned
  • Landscape
  • Workers

• What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • True
  • Hope

• To my mind, it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives. But it is something you cannot possibly escape: your psychological make-up is such that you are inclined to look back over your shoulder.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Happy

• There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl. I hope to start directing it.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Children
  • Hope
  • Dark

• I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.

  

  Aamir Khan
  • Success
  • Learned
  • Give

• Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• I can smell burning flesh … and I hope to God it's human.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • God
  • Hope

• Some movies you fall a step behind, and some you stay in the same place, make the same choices. And then sometimes there are people who know more than you but show you, and that's the maximum you can hope for - doing that with someone who says, 'I like you for what you are, and I want you to be in my picture.'

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • People
  • Hope
  • Fall

• There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me... We spend our lives doing nothing for each other.

  

  Bing Crosby
  • World
  • Hope

• People tend to overstate my resilience, but, of course, I hope they're right.

  

  David Brudnoy
  • People
  • Hope
  • Resilience

• Music is such a powerful tool, and there are so many people who need love and encouragement and hope.

  

  Andy Mineo
  • People
  • Music
  • Hope

• You just need an opportunity and then you yourself have to do a good job, and then you hope that people go, 'Oh yeah, I forgot about her.'

  

  Janeane Garofalo
  • People
  • Good
  • Job

• Our only hope for America is that every conservative takes upon him or herself the project of learning what American and conservative values are, coming to understand what leftism stands for, and learning how to make the case for those values to women, young people, blacks and Hispanics.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • People
  • Women
  • American

• One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.

  

  Mary Pipher
  • Important
  • Children
  • Parents

• If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Different
  • You
  • Someone

• 'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Different
  • Family

• The beauty of it is when you can just show up and hit the notes.

  

  John Lone
  • Up

• Let your light shine so brightly that others can see their way out of the dark.

  

  Katrina Mayer
  • Way
  • Light
  • Dark

• I hope this is the lesson we women really commit to memory - we learned that it doesn't work to try be someone other than who you really are.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Hope
  • Memory
  • Learned